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Summary
David Lin, the former president of Japanese American Citizens League, and his wife, Jean, both age 69, were fatally beaten in their Hillsborough, New Jersey home in a September double-homicide. The Somerset County Prosecutor’s office said their deaths were caused by blunt-force head trauma. Officers responding to a welfare check later encountered a knife-wielding man, who was shot by police and hospitalized in critical condition.
Lin was the first non-Nikkei to hold the president’s role. JACL leaders expressed profound sadness and praised his decades of dedicated civil-rights work.
AAUC offers its condolences to the Lin family.
